# email notification **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 17, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613 "2003-11-17T01:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/1 "2003-11-17T01:24:28Z")
I have set the option NOT to get email notification when someone replies to my message, and I DONT check the box for each thread. Nevertheless, I keep getting email notifications. How do I stop this happening? ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/2 "2003-11-17T17:25:03Z")
Is this a global thing, or is it only happening in a specific thread? If it’s only happening in certain threads, can you please post links to them here for me? I’ll take a look at 'em and see what I can see. If it’s global, I have no idea. Have you tried “unsubscribing” to any of them through the link provided in the e-mail and did that have any effect? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/3 "2003-11-17T19:26:41Z")
Its global. I don’t want to unsubscribe, I want to go to my cp and see if there’s any reply to my messages. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/4 "2003-11-17T22:17:39Z")
Uhh, I don’t think the system is set up that way. If you subscribe to a thread, you get e-mail. (Or at least you do when the boards are working properly.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/5 "2003-11-17T23:10:14Z")
Have you tried setting up a free account for the SDMB notifications? Then, you can ignore them till the inbox fills up and you delete them all. That way, you stay subscribed for your CP. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/6 "2003-11-17T23:35:51Z")
Umm, we _strongly_ prefer that members have an active and useful e-mail account listed in their profile. Else we’re left with no way to contact members, should that need arise. In fact, it’s a requirement, if the registration agreeement is to be construed narrowly. Alternatively though, you could simply set up a Spam filter for messages from the Straight Dope Message Board Mailer. The SDMB staff uses the e-mail accounts that have been made public so there’s never a question of authenticity; we won’t mail you from the SDMB mailer. You might miss some membership-wide distribution e-mail, but I think that’s been used exactly twice since these boards opened for business - both related to hacker activity with alerts to change your password. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/email-notification/213613/7 "2003-11-18T22:49:01Z")
Haha! I didn’t subscribe to this thread and missed **UB** ’s post til now. 🙂 That r. a. interpretation makes sense. I can set my e-mail to block specific addresses, so your spam filter idea works. Thanks.